I learned JAVA (my first programming language) 3 or 4 years ago alone, because my programming class was way too slow.
After two years programming in java we started our FRC team and as a very small team i was the only one on the electronics and programming.
Because we started our team two weeks after the kickoff, i didnt have the time to go to a LabView course or something like that.
I watched a "how to make a simple motor vi with joystick" video in NI's website and understood the basic code, and then - everything is the same in LabView.
I made myself a testing enviroment - took all the electronics and connected them and tried different codes. After two weeks of this i could program the 2009's robot.
Good luck
